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When the topic of a Puritanical society is brought up, most people think of a strict and conservative society. While this may have usually been the case, this was not always so. The Puritan society was also known not to act out of brotherly love, but to cruelly lash out on those who were sinned, or were deemed unfit for society.
Two works of literature that display both aspects of this society very accurately are The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorn, and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The Scarlet Letter displays a society that treats two people very differently who commit the sin of adultery together. The woman, Hester Prynne admits her sin, is forced to always wear a scarlet letter A on her chest, and is ostracized from society. The man Reverend Dimmsdale, hides his sin from the world, is almost worshipped by the townspeople, but is filled with the shame of his action. Nathanial Hawthorm illustrates how insensitive a Puritan society can be to those who admit to their......

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